How Face Painting Found Me…
I was lucky enough to grow up in a creative family on the Isle of Wight with fancy dress at every conceivable calendar point of the year from halloween to parties to carnivals to New Year.
I only later realised that face painting was integral to that but I always saw it as part of the costume, rather than something in it’s own right.
With a desire to do something artistic with my life I achieved a first class honours degree in Fine Art from University of Plymouth, Exeter and I went on to have a successful television career spanning over 15 years.
I loved my job as a Producer/ Director, but due to family commitments I wanted to scale back the kind of work I could take on – but what else could I do? I thought long and hard but my daughter decided for me…
Zoe and the Facemakers owes it’s existence to Peppa Pig!
My first ever tiger face paint! See below for more recent versions.
All parents will understand why immediately, but there is a wonderful episode (series 1, ep 20) in which Peppa and her friends get their faces painted by Miss Rabbit at the school fete, hilariously all she can paint is tigers. To cut a long story short, this captured my daughters imagination and she wanted her face painted all the time. In turn this re-ignited a creative passion in me which was immediate and easy to share.
After a year of painting my daughter and her friends I decided to enrol on various courses at the London School of Face Painting to learn professional skills and techniques, my joy for face painting just grew and continues to grow. You never tire of seeing people’s faces as they are transformed by the magic face painting.
And I am happy to say tigers are still one of my favourite most roarsome things to paint! (although unlike Miss Rabbit, I do have a few other designs up my sleeve as well).
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Brushing up on my FACE PAINTING skills
With Face Painting you never ever stop learning: workshops, courses, demos & all of my wonderful face painting colleagues that amaze and inspire me constantly. I feel so lucky to be part of such an amazing community doing a job a genuinely love.
I started at the London School of Face Painting with Bibi Freeman, and have been fortunate enough to train with some of the most talented, amazing artists in face & body art and make-up.
Some of which include Heather Green, Sally-Anne Lynch, Dutch Bihary, Matteo Arfonotti, Karen Huwen, Naomi Gay, Mimi Choi, The Skulltress, Juliet Eve, Theresa Mullins, Anna, Lingus, Amanda Warburton, Follies, Steffi Berghmans, Miss Katie Munroe…
Hopefully this journey never ends and this list will get longer and longer.
Matteo Body Painting Workshop
Skulltress Creative Make-up
Juliet Eve
Katie Munroe Airbrush Body Art
Heather Green
Skulltress Headdresses
Dutch Bihary
Airbrush Bodyart Airbrush Tattoos
Matteo Arfanotti
Steffi Berghmans Mould Making
Anna Lingus
Nick Wolfe
Mimi Choi
Theresa Mullins 3D Workshop
Naomi Gay
Karen Huwen
